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Here's a list. The scrolls are from a library that burned in 79 AD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lost_literary_works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li
by colechristensen 4mo ago
Here's a list. The scrolls are from a library that burned in 79 AD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lost_literary_works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lost_literary_works
- kouru225 4mo agoWoah there was a lost Homer epic comedy about a bumbling fool named Margites?
- sapphicsnail 4mo agoThere's also the Telegony. Odysseus has a son through Circe who winds up killing him and marrying Penelope. Odysseus son through Penelope, Telemachus, marries Circe. There's some wild stuff that doesn't survive.
- kouru225 4mo agoLooking through these it’s crazy to find out that The Iliad is only 1 of like 5 original texts on the Trojan war. We’re reading book 2 of a 5 book series
- colechristensen 4mo agoIt was an oral epic passed through generations for quite a while before anything was written down so there isn't necessarily much of an "original"